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Poland important in building trans-Atlantic relations: US ambassador

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Roberto Galea 27.01.2017 14:01
The US ambassador to Poland, Paul Jones, discussed the US-Polish relations under the new Donald Trump administration in an interview with the Rzeczpospolita daily.
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“I personally believe that Poland... might have an important role to play in the process of building trans-Atlantic relations,” Jones said in the interview published on Friday.

In the interview Jones said that NATO and the US still have a strong relation, and that president Trump is not going to withdraw its support for NATO.

The ambassador said that he “absolutely does not perceive” recent comments by Donald Trump that NATO is “obsolete” as a change in tack by the US. Jones added that the US army will complete its mission in Poland.

Amid fears of Russian aggression following Moscow's annexation of the Crimea region of Ukraine in 2014, at the Warsaw summit last July NATO decided to deploy four rotating multinational battalions of some 1,000 soldiers each on its eastern flank.

The US brigade will be stationed in Poland and other countries in the region on a rotating basis as a part of Operation Atlantic Resolve.

The brigade, which is already in Poland, comprises of some 3,500 soldiers and over 1,000 vehicles including Abrams tanks and Bradley military vehicles. (tf/rg)

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